C.F. High counselors to meet with parents of seniors

CEDAR FALLS - Cedar Falls High School counselors will meet with parents of senior students at 7 p.m. Monday in the auditorium.

Information will be available to help students and parents get through their final year and to prepare for the next step. Resources for important dates, college, financial aid and scholarships will be presented.

Free prostate cancer screenings will be offered

WATERLOO - Covenant Cancer Treatment Center is offering free prostate cancer screenings from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at Mount Carmel Baptist Church, 805 Adams St.

The tests will be available to African-American men between 45 and 70 who are uninsured; have a family history; or whose insurance does not cover screenings.

Men already diagnosed with prostate cancer are not eligible.

To sign up, call 272-2273.

Silver Elite Club meeting

set Wednesday at WCA

WATERLOO - The September event for the Silver Elite Club will begin at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Waterloo Center for the Arts.

Suzanne Freedman, an associate professor at the University of Northern Iowa College of Education, will talk about forgiveness, including misconceptions.

Refreshments and bingo will follow.

To make a reservation, call 235-3240.

Public invited to meeting about REAP funds

CEDAR FALLS - The public is invited to a meeting Sept. 21 to hear how funds available through the Resource Enhancement and Protection program have been spent in the area.

The meeting will be from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Hartman Reserve Nature Center, 657 Reserve Drive.

During the past 20 years, REAP put more than $11 million in a six-county area that includes Black Hawk. The money went for parks, roadside prairies, historical site development and conservation education.

Participants also can make recommendations on policy and programs and will elect of five delegates to attend the REAP Congress in January in Des Moines.

For information, go to www.iowareap.com.

Institute for Green Chemistry president to speak at UNI

CEDAR FALLS - John Warner, president of the Warner Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry and the Beyond Benign Foundation, will speak Sept. 24 at the University of Northern Iowa.

Warner will begin his address at 7:30 p.m. in McCollum Science Hall.

Warner received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Massachusetts-Boston and a master's and doctoral degrees from Princeton University in organic chemistry.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

For information, call (319) 273-2437 or e-mail Bill.Harwood@uni.edu.